Subject: Re: Unix, Win32 & Posix subsystems [was: TeX implementations?]
From: [email-masked] (Oliver Korfmacher)

30 Oct 1996 10:49:28 -0800
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Mr. X

> ..
> IMHO, Microsoft designers never really grasped the concepts of
> network transparency and policy-neutrality.  Others have said they
> understood them and rejected them on marketing grounds.  The mish-mosh
> of display primitives and fundamentals such as container objects in
> the MFC is merely an example.  The internals appear to be in very much
> worse shape.

Talking about that, i recall that MS long times ago gave the
sources of NT to universities and schools?! Anybody knows if
this is true? For NT 1.0 or 4.0?

-- 
Gruesse,

        Oliver Korfmacher ([email-masked], whois OK11
                        URL: http://www.netcs.com/PEOPLE/okorf.html)
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